Existing Timeline

Partition of Ireland




O'Connell organizes Irish Catholics		1823

O'Connell in by-election upset		1828

Catholics emancipated in Britain		1829

O'Connell's monster meetings		1842

Irish Republican Brotherhood		1858

Home Rule association founded		1870

Parnell elected to Westminster		1875

Phoenix Park murders		1882

Home Rule splits Liberals		1886

Parnell and Kitty O'Shea		1889

Lords reject Home Rule bill		1893

Griffith launches Sinn Fein		1902

Carson promises Unionist defiance		1911

Unionists sign pledge of civil disobedience		1912

Volunteer Force to defend Ulster		1913

Dublin raises Irish National Volunteers		1913

Curragh mutiny supports Ulster Protestants		1914

Home Rule Act passed for Ireland		1914

Easter Rising in Dublin		1916

De Valera in Easter Rising		1916

Pearse and Connolly executed		1916

De Valera leads Sinn Fein		1917

De Valera arrested		1918

Sinn Fein sets up Dáil Eireann		1919

IRA to fight for independence		1919

De Valera escapes from gaol		1919

Parliaments proposed for Dublin and Belfast		1920

Black and Tans brutalize Ireland		1920

Massive Sinn Fein election victory		1921

Dáil Eireann revived		1921

Craig prime minister of northern Ireland		1921

Southern Irish independence agreed		1921

Southern Ireland to become Irish Free State		1921